From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [C2x] Disallow function attributes after function identifier
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 23:31:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520a1013-ec4a-b3ca-871b-5e8110f61d37@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YqO0rOrFjPvX6Hbq@tucnak>
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[I reordered some of your answers, to better answer]
Hi Jakub,
On 6/10/22 23:16, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:40:15PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc wrote:
>> So, could you please drop that from C2x?
>
> No!
> [[attr0]] void foo (void), bar (void);
> appertains to both declarations, while
True, but.
> void baz [[attr1]] (void), qux [[attr2]] (void);
> appertains to only the specific declaration.
That's true. But how many of these are spotted in the wild,
non-theoretical world?
In the world I live, they mean effectively (but not theoretically) the
same thing :)
> void corge (void) [[attr3]];
> appertains to the function type.
Yes, that one is clear.
>
> For one it diverges from C++, but also it means something different
> at the different locations.
Well, I'd argue the same reasons to remove it from C++. Don't know how
useful that feature is for C++, though. I bet not much, but am not an
expert in the language.
But, are we sure we want to add this to C? You know how difficult is to
revert mistakes in C, as opposed to C++, where additions and
deprecations are more common.
This is basically breaking any ability to separately (textually) parse C
files without the build context.
Regards,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-10 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-10 20:40 Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-10 21:09 ` Joseph Myers
2022-06-10 21:35 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-10 21:16 ` Jakub Jelinek
2022-06-10 21:31 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2022-06-10 22:47 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-06-11 9:03 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-11 12:08 ` Gabriel Ravier
2022-06-11 20:20 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-13 15:54 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-06-11 12:53 ` Jonathan Wakely
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